Camera drones without mirrors in this technic can be used cold-war wisdom goes. In this Case in point: QinetiQ is rising a lens-less, mirror-less, battlefield imaging system and some help from in your DARPA’s deep pockets.

The LACOSTE project aims that to position aloft high-altitude drones and air-ships fixed with in a particular, thousand-that tough microscopic sensor array, a “mask,” and that image processor to decode picture and take out an image of rapidly changing situation on battlefield or, you guessed it, and city streets.

The resultant trivial and highly-durable system should be characteristic a “super resolution” mode with aptitude to “detect and simultaneously track large numbers of moving vehicles in dense urban areas with a high degree of accuracy, 24-hours a day.”

[Via BBC]